Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a plurality of heat transfer tubes, each of which extends in a first direction, arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; an upper header provided on an upper end of each of the plurality of heat transfer tubes and extending in the second direction; and a water guide covering a part of the upper header within a region of an angle formed by the first direction and a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction as viewed from a center of the upper header in the second direction, and guiding condensate generated on a surface of the upper header toward a position between the plurality of heat transfer tubes.

Abstract: In a partitioning member that is accommodated in a battery assembly to partition single cells and in which a liquid is sealed, an opening position of the partitioning member that opens upon receiving heat generated from the single cells is defined at a specific spot at a peripheral edge portion or a surface of the partitioning member. A partitioning member 1 includes a sealing portion 32 formed by sealing edge portions of multilayer sheets 31, 31 each including a resin layer and a metal layer in a band-like manner, a liquid and a heat insulation material 2 are sealed in an internal space surrounded by the sealing portion 32, and a weak seal strength portion 4A protruding from a side facing the internal space to an edge portion side of the sealing portion 32 is provided in the sealing portion 32.

Abstract: This vehicle seat assembly device includes: a base section; a cushion working section that is connected to one side of the base section, that places a seat cushion in which a plurality of first through holes are formed, and that is capable of connecting a seat cover to the seat cushion; and a cover working section that is connected to the other side of the base section, that places a seat cover, and that can transfer the seat cover to the upper part of the seat cushion. The cover working section includes a cushion rest which connected to the base section and on which a wire and the seat cushion can be placed.

Abstract: A DC-DC converter that converts a DC input voltage supplied from a DC power supply and that outputs a DC voltage with a different potential is shown. The DC-DC converter includes the following. A control circuit controls a switching element in accordance with a potential difference between a feedback voltage proportional to an output voltage and a predetermined reference voltage. A current supply circuit that causes a predetermined current to flow. A voltage correction circuit that corrects the reference voltage or the feedback voltage. The voltage correction circuit is configured to determine a voltage correction amount, based on information about a resistance on a load side input from outside when a current of the current supply circuit is output, and correct the reference voltage or the feedback voltage.

Abstract: Information is provided by a voice taking users into account. An information providing system provides information using a voice. A position direction acquisition unit acquires position information indicating a position of a user, and sight direction information indicating a sight direction that is a direction that a face of the user faces. A storage unit stores, in advance, object position information indicating respective positions of a plurality of objects that may be viewed by the user, and explanation information for explaining each of the objects. An estimation unit estimates the object being viewed by the user based on the position information and the sight direction information of the user, and the object position information. An information output unit outputs the explanation information of the estimated object using the voice.

Abstract: This vehicle seat assembly device includes: a base section; a cushion working section that is connected to one side of the base section and that can place a seat cushion in which a plurality of first through holes are formed; and a cover working section that is connected to the other side of the base section, that places a seat cover, and that can transfer the seat cover to the upper part of the seat cushion. The cushion working section fixes a clip, which is connected to a suspender of the seat cover, to a wire positioned at the lower part of the seat cushion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a controller and a control method that improve safety of a saddled vehicle. According to the controller and the control method, a determination unit determines whether a braking operation unit is in operation, based on an output from a detector configured to detect a state quantity of the braking operation unit. An execution unit executes a driving support mode, in which a braking force generated in the saddled vehicle is amplified, when the determination unit determines that the braking operation unit is in operation. The execution unit, in the driving support mode: amplifies the braking force based on a surrounding environment information that is information about environment around the saddled vehicle; and changes, based on a degree of change in the output from the detector, a degree of reduction in the braking force at the end of the amplification of the braking force generated in the saddled vehicle.

Abstract: To properly improve safety of a straddle-type vehicle. The controller includes a determination unit and an execution unit. The determination unit (63) determines, based on at least one of a first master cylinder pressure and a second master cylinder pressure, whether a braking operation is performed. The execution unit executes a driving support mode, in which a braking force generated in a straddle-type vehicle is amplified, when the determination unit determines that the braking operation is performed.

Abstract: In an electric vehicle includes: a swing arm swingably supported by a vehicle body through a pivot shaft; a motor arranged in the swing arm and driving a driving wheel; and a functional component of the electric vehicle electrically connected to the motor, a sub frame is provided, the sub frame being separate from a body frame configuring the vehicle body and being attachable to the body frame, the sub frame includes a pivot portion swingably supporting the swing arm, and the functional component of the electric vehicle is supported by the sub frame.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a controller and a control method that improve safety of saddled vehicles suitably. According to the controller and the control method, a controller maneuvers a saddled vehicle that includes a first operation unit configured to accept a brake operation by a rider. The controller has a control section (62) and a determination section (63). The control section (62) controls a deceleration of the saddled vehicle (100). The determination section (63) determines possibility of causing a collision of the saddled vehicle (100) based on a surrounding environment information of the saddled vehicle (100). The control section (62) initiates a first deceleration control, to control the deceleration, according to a first operation. The first operation is an operation in which the rider operates a second operation unit (2R) to change a state of the second operation unit (2R) from a reference state to a different state that is different from the reference state.

Abstract: A ceramic ball storage tray includes a storage portion that stores a ceramic ball. The storage portion of the ceramic ball storage tray has a protruding portion formed such that a center of a bottom surface portion of the storage portion is hollow. A height of an outer circumferential surface of the protruding portion relative to a diameter of the ceramic ball is within a range of 0.05 or more and 0.30 or less. A height of the storage portion relative to the diameter of the ceramic ball is preferably within a range of 1.05 or more and 2.00 or less. A height of an inner circumferential surface of the protruding portion relative to the diameter of the ceramic ball is preferably within a range of 0.01 or more and 0.10 or less.

Abstract: A tube unit includes multiple tubes and bundling portions that bundle end portions of respective tubes at opposite ends of the tubes. At least one of the end portions of respective tubes has a tube wall portion that tubularly extends in an extension direction of the tubes and also has a protrusion protruding radially outward from the tube wall portion.

Abstract: The voice advertisement delivery system includes a user terminal, an advertiser terminal, and a voice advertisement delivery server. The voice advertisement delivery server receives designation of a preferred location to which voice advertisement is delivered from the advertiser terminal and acquires user location information indicating the location of a user and user direction information indicating the direction of the user. The user location information is transmitted to the voice advertisement delivery server. The advertisement location information and voice advertisement data are delivered to the user terminal when the user location information approaches the designated advertisement location information and satisfies a predetermined condition. The user terminal operates spatial sound and reproduces the voice advertisement.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a controller and a control method appropriately improving safety of a saddled vehicle. According to the controller and the control method according to the present disclosure, a controller maneuvers a saddled vehicle (100) and has a control section. The control section executes a distance control in which a distance between the saddled vehicle (100) and a target vehicle is controlled based on surrounding environment information of the saddled vehicle (100). The control section initiates the distance control according to a first operation in which a rider of the saddled vehicle (100) operates an operation unit (2R) to change a reference state of the operation unit (2R) to a different state that is different from the reference state. The control section terminates the distance control according to a second operation in which the rider returns the operation unit (2R) to the reference state during execution of the distance control.

Abstract: In a coil-embedded dust core constituting an inductance element, a winding body of a coil disposed inside a coil-embedded dust core and a dust core have a relationship that the inner core volume ratio RV defined below is 3 or more and 5 or less: RV=(V1/V2)/(1?V/Vp), where V1 represents a volume of a region in the dust core located on an inner side of the winding body of the coil when the coil-embedded dust core is viewed in a first direction, which is a direction along a winding axis of the coil, V2 represents a volume of a region in the dust core located on an outer side of the winding body of the coil when the coil-embedded dust core is viewed in the first direction, V represents a volume of the dust core, and Vp represents a volume of the coil-embedded dust core.

Abstract: A coordinate input apparatus includes an insulating substrate, sensor electrodes having detecting positions, a top panel including an operating surface that allows an operation with a pointer and covering the sensor electrodes, a measuring circuit that measures capacitances of the detecting positions, and a calculating circuit that calculates a position of the pointer in two-axis directions of the operating surface, wherein, at a detecting position at which a maximum measured value is obtained and detecting positions next to the detecting position, the calculating circuit applies a quadratic curve to the maximum value and the measured values measured at the adjacent detecting positions to calculate a position of a vertex of the quadratic curve, and wherein, when the detecting position at which the maximum value is obtained is at an extreme end in either of the two-axis directions, the calculating circuit corrects the position of the pointer toward the extreme end.

Abstract: A highly accelerated stress test device includes: a first heater that heats a test space; a second heater that heats a steam generating space; a first sensor that measures a first temperature of the test space; a second sensor that measures a second temperature of the steam generating space; an item temperature sensor that is directly attached to a sample placed in the test space and that measures an item temperature of the sample; and a controller that prepares, as candidates for a test mode, a normal mode in which on-off control of each of the first and second heaters is carried out based on the first and second temperatures, and an item-temperature mode in which the on-off control is carried out based on the item and second temperatures, and carries out the on-off control according to the test mode that is set with a test condition of the sample.

Abstract: A flexible flywheel includes: a shaft fastening portion fixed to an end portion of an engine crankshaft; an annular inertia ring provided around the shaft fastening portion; a plurality of elastic spoke portions that extend in the radial direction between the shaft fastening portion and the inertia ring and connect the shaft fastening portion and the inertia ring to each other, and that absorb vibration acting on the crankshaft by undergoing deflection; and weight portions provided between adjacent elastic spoke portions, side edge-side boundary ends, to which boundaries with the weight portions are connected, are provided on both sides edges of the elastic spoke portion, respectively, when the elastic spoke portions are vibrated, stress concentrates on the side edge-side boundary ends.

Abstract: An optical apparatus includes an aperture unit having a variable aperture value, an operation member operable by a user and configured to set the aperture value, and a processor configured to output a specified aperture value according to an operation of the operation member, generate a target aperture value from the specified aperture value, and control driving of the aperture unit based on the target aperture value. The processor performs one of first processing for generating the target aperture value with a first resolution from the specified aperture value, and second processing for generating the target aperture value with a second resolution, which is finer than the first resolution, from the specified aperture value.

Abstract: A quartz glass plate has a quartz glass plate body and a quartz glass member adhered to the quartz glass plate body through an adhesive layer, where the adhesive layer contains silica, and a sum of concentrations of Li, Na, and K ions, being alkali metal ions and Ca ions, being alkaline earth metal ions contained in the adhesive layer is 10 ppm by mass or less. Consequently, a step with a uniform thickness can be formed, and a quartz glass plate is not easily damaged by irradiation with a light containing an ultraviolet ray.